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When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
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He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;
Till one calls him, who varies not his call,
But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,
Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;
A freedom far less welcome than this chain.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri read more
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest
Id velis quod possis.]
Wishers and woulders be small householders.
Wishers and woulders be small householders.
You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you
wish, Dondymus, I do not read more
You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you
wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
